Hi Tom,
Thanks for offering.
I built a personal OpenBSD/socppc 6.5 release last year for my RB600A and
continue to use it. I tried building 6.6 but found compiling clang infeasible
on a platform with only 128MB of memory and PIO compact flash. I tried to
improve the swap experience by adding an SSD but gave up due to problems with
my miniPCI SATA card.
So although I’m fond of the boards I do not expect to see further development
on them. (That said, it should be possible in principle to compile a socppc
kernel
and use the macppc userspace; and if you or anyone reading would like the
socppc 6.5 release, contact me off-list.)
Regards the RB800, from what I understand these require significant effort
to support as they use a substantially different PowerPC core from that
supported by our powerpc code[0].
cheers,
Richard.
[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc=126938500604186=2
> On 20/05/2020, at 5:20 AM, Tom Smyth wrote:
>
> Hello Devs,
> Thanks again for all your work on OpenBSD 6.7
> just checking if any of you would need / want RB800s, as per mail below,
>
> I also have 2x RB600s which at one stage did run OpenBSD PPC edition
> if any dev want them contact me off list and Ill have them shipped to you
> Thanks and stay safe people ...
> 1 person non dev expressed an interest in them but I would like to
> give preference
> to those who work on hardware dev testing in OpenBSD ... if the boards were
> in fact useful
> Thanks
> Tom Smyth
>
> On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 21:12, Tom Smyth wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>> does any OpenBSD Developer want some Power PC SBC the specs
>>
>>
>> Product code RB800
>> CPU MPC8533EVTALF
>> CPU core count 1
>> CPU nominal frequency800 MHz
>> RAM 256MB
>> onboard NAND storage 512MB
>>
>> there are 4x Mini PCI slots
>> and 1x PCI-E
>> and 1 Compact Flash slots
>> 3x 1Gb/s Ports
>>
>>
>> they have a wide input voltage range for powering and can be powered via POE
>>
>> I have atleast 5x in stock and will ship them to any interested Developer ?
>>
>> https://mikrotik.com/product/RB800#fndtn-specifications
>>
>> --
>> Kindest regards,
>> Tom Smyth.
>
>
>
> --
> Kindest regards,
> Tom Smyth.
>
